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Dying is rough. All a pharaoh wants is a nice place to rest, surrounded by his (equivalent to) millions of dollars in loot and valuable ancient artifacts, but there's always some joker that wants his stuff. So, the Mummy's gotta get out of his cozy sarcophagus and open a can of curse-ass in his shambling, arms-straight-out, wrapped-in-bandages, way.

The mummy is one of The Undead, and typically a Sealed Evil in a Can. When active, its behavior is quite similar to the Zombie, Artificial or otherwise, but its embalmed flesh and ancient magic render it far sturdier than its rancid urban counterparts, to the extent that it is practically Implacable. Which is ironic, considering the opposite is true in real life; a real mummy will crumble to dust if you're not super careful with it.

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More recent examples (mostly inspired by the 1999 film and its sequels) may make the Mummy closer to a lich or vampire, giving it more individuality and brain, as well ample magical powers (such as the ability to command "lesser" mummies and local Egyptian wildlife like scarab beetles).

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The Monster Cereals has the lesser-used Fruity Yummy Mummy (his cereal is retired, but he is still used in non-food ad campaigns). He has rainbow wrappings, and his debut commercial saw him being introduced in his pyramid.

Anime & Manga

In Princess Resurrection, the mansion is one night attacked by the mummy army of Pharaoh. They are weak but there are so damn many of them. And Hime is ill and went to sleep in the middle of the battle so Hiro, Riza and Flandre have to fight the whole army by themselves.

Kekkaishi features an odd spin on the Mummy trope in major antagonist Kaguro, an Ayakashi (a variety of dangerous spirit) whose true appearance behind a human skin disguise is that of a fully burnt human wrapped in bandages. He's fixed on killing "interesting" warriors without warning. Kaguro further defies Mummy conventions by stalking rather than sleeping, being the fastest character in the entire anime, materializing swords, and having chosen to become undead to gain power.

Rurouni Kenshin: Makoto Shishio is definitely a nod to this trope, despite being very alive. Another nod is in that he doesn't have a place in the current, peaceful era.

Mummymon from Digimon Adventure 02 is a mummy monster with Creepily Long Arms, wears a purple bandana and he wields a machine gun that shoots lightning. He has a human form which is a grey-skinned man with one eye and sharp teeth, carries a cane and wears a blue mantle and blue hat.

Mummies appears in Yaiba as part of the Ordeals of Ryuujin. Specifically, said mummies will keep spawning non-stop, and to win they have to find and kill the right one. They're also shown to be hollow inside.

Soul Eater had a pyramid full of mummies in Death the Kid's introductory chapter/episode.

According to the anime of Daily Life with Monster Girl (by the mangaka of Deadline Summonner), mummies in that setting are a zombie subspecies from desert environments, whose bodies are preserved by the climate. However, being preserved by the desert also means their skin has lost its moisture, requiring them to take long baths to replenish it. Many mummies also have difficult personalities, having been royalty or nobility in life.

In Little Gloomy, Mummy, an aptly named bartender, speaks in hieroglyphics. Somehow. Other characters understand him, but the reader cannot. That's apparently just how it goes down in Mummytown, which is, naturally, where he comes from.

The Marvel Universe gives us N'Kantu, the Living Mummy, an African tribal warrior of the "Swarili" that was mummified alive through magic means as punishment for inciting a slave rebellion in ancient Egypt. Wakes up after 3000 years, and starts fighting magic egyptian themed crime.

In Marvel's pre-superhero monster comics, they did at least two unrelated stories about giant Egyptian mummies who turn out to be aliens (one drawn by Jack Kirby, the other by Don Heck).

Green Lantern: One of the Orange Lanterns, Warp-Wrap, is an alien mummy whose tomb was robbed by Larfleeze.

Tintin The story of the supposed curse of Tutankhamun inspired the plot of two albums: The Cigars of the Pharaoh, which takes place in Egypt where the curse is fake, and just a front for an opium smuggling ring led by Tintins future arch-enemy Rastapopulous, and The Seven Crystal Balls, in which seven archeologists who discovered the mummy of Rascarcarpac, an Inca king all fall victim to something that is suspected to be a curse. It's a curse, but not created by the mummy itself. The Sons Of the Sun, a hidden society consisting of the last survivors of the original Incan empire snt one of their priests to France, and he placed them in a kind of drugged hypnotic trance, trapping them in a suggestible state that allowed him to curse them with horrible nightmares. Tintin convinces them to break the curse at the end

The Tales from the Crypt story "Lower Berth", which was adapted into an episode of the live-action series mentioned below, established that the Crypt Keeper was the son of a preserved corpse with two heads named Enoch and an Ancient Egyptian mummy named Myrna.

In the Hellboy story "The House of Sebek" the villain, a madman who thinks he's the High Priest of Horus summons a bunch of mummies to attack Hellboy. They don't last long.

In "Makoma, or A Tale Told by a Mummy in the New York City Explorers Club on August 16, 1993", a sentient mummy tells Hellboy a version of the legend of Makoma, which has parallels to HB's own destiny.

One comic has a man suffer the mummy's wrath in a bathroom for mistaking funereal wrappings for toilet paper.

Another time, three guys open a mummy's sarcophagus and, instead of making a dramatic, ominous threat, the mummy casually says, "Ok, that's a curse on you, a curse on you and a curse on you."

A memorable Gahan Wilson cartoon in Playboy had Egyptian priests in a modern day hospital putting a patient in a full body cast into a sarcophagus while he says "I think you guys are making a mistake."

Films — Animated

Hotel Transylvania has Murray, a fat, good-natured mummy with an American accent and Cee Lo Green's singing abilities (including autotuning). His wife is also a mummy, a tall, slender one with traditional Ancient Egyptian headgear.

In Night at the Museum a Mummy's magic tablet of stone brings all the statues and other displays to life at night. The Mummy himself is assumed to be evil because everyone knows Mummies are evil (plus the fact that he was banging on the sarcophagus cover and moaning)... turns out though he's actually a really Nice Guy and just wants to be let out of his sarcophagus.

One of the combatants in the Undead Confederate in Monster Brawl is Mummy named King Khafra. A ruthless dictator in life, he enters the ring with his past combat experience and a pendant that shoots solar energy, which is most fortunate as his opponent is a vampire.

A strange mummy in Time Walker is found in Egypt and brought to California. It gets pelted with overdose of x-rays, which revives it and it gets up to find the crystals that were stolen from its sarcophagus. Late in the film, it is revealed to be an alien.

Dawn of the Mummy (1981) features a mummy whose tomb is disturbed by grave robbers and American fashion models. After the mummy rises to enact vengeance on its tomb's desecrators, it is followed by its buried undead slaves that act more like traditional flesh-eating zombies that were in vogue in the eighties.

In Tale of the Mummy, the excavators of an ancient tomb are hunted by a mummy whose bones disintegrated long ago, so it manifests as a mass of CGI-animated bandages that enfold its victims.

The probable Ur-Example is Jane Loudon's 1827 book The Mummy! Oddly enough this is a sci-fi book set in the year 2126 and a marginal Frankenstein knock-off.

Poe's 1845 story "Some Words With a Mummy" presents another very, very early example of a reanimated mummy. In this case the mummy turned out not to be dead but in a kind of suspended animation. Despite the typically Gothic scenario, the story is a satirical farce that lampoons academia and Mighty Whitey style thinking.

Bram Stoker's book The Jewel of Seven Stars features a mummy in a long-lost tomb, and mysterious violent death for anyone who disturbs it. (Technically, the mysterious deaths are the work of the discorporate spirit of the mummified body's former inhabitant, and the mummy itself remains inanimate throughout.)

The above three, are probably considered the biggest three early Mummies, that you stand decent chance of getting your hands on. That being said neither were imagined in a vacuum. Egyptomania and fascination with Mummies were old enough to be parodied by Poe. There most certainly are other mummy stories, but given where they were most often published, having remaining copies of such mediums are now rare.

Many mummies rise in the Discworld book Pyramids. And they're pissed off not because people are violating their tombs, but because their tombs are actually the reason their souls can't pass on to the next life in the first place. That, and returning to your body to find your organs had been removed would make anyone crabby.

In the recent Who's Your Mummy?, the mummies aren't even the villains, they're the victims.

In Tom B. Stone's Graveyard School series, "Don't Tell Mummy" features a delightfully sarcastic, enigmatic girl called Morton, who turns out to be a living mummy (she's a good character nonetheless).

There is an Anne Rice novel called The Mummy: or Rameses the Damned. The titular mummy, like Imhotep above, doesn't fit the trope himself, but Cleopatra kinda-sorta does, at least at first.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lot No. 249 tells the tale of ultimate nerd revenge in the form of an auction-bought mummy and an occultist student. It ends quite not so badly as the setup might lead to expect.

An early cliffhanger in Galaxy of Fear: Planet of the Dead has our protagonists menaced by mummies! who are then revealed to be living people in costumes. The real undead that they face later are varied, some of them bandaged, others not.

Mummies are the politicians in the Monster MashCity of Devils. The plot concerns finding a missing mummy city councilman of the 1st District of Los Angeles.

In Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I., mummies are one of the less-common types of "Unnatural" roused by the Big Uneasy. One recurring mummy character sued for his freedom from the museum at which he'd been displayed; another is the madam of an all-unnatural brothel.

"The Tomb of the Cybermen" offers up a science-fiction version of the Mummy's Curse.

"Pyramids of Mars" features robots disguised as mummies, serving pseudo-Egyptian God and actual alien being Sutekh.

In "The Rings of Akhaten", the theme is "Ancient Egypt in Space", with a pyramid, alien marketplace, and a hokey religion based around a Pyramid and a god known as "Grandfather". When the Doctor and companion Clara arrive, the people of Akhaten appear to be worshipping an alien mummy as this "Grandfather." Turns out the mummy is in fact a complicated alarm clock system designed to waken the actual "Grandfather", a memory-draining star.

"Mummy on the Orient Express" has a mummified alien known as the Foretold attacking passengers on the titular train. The Foretold is the subject of a legend that portrays it of an omen of death, since anyone who sees it has exactly 66 seconds to live before it kills them.

"The Empress of Mars" is another sci-fi version of the traditional story: true, the titular Empress is cryogenically frozen, but she's encased in gold, lying on a sarcophagus-esque golden plinth, and gets awoken by Victorians pillaging her 'tomb', so the similarities are obvious. In a refreshing change from the usual "mummy's tomb", the story acknowledges she's justified in being angry at these random people showing up to rob her tomb.

One Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode featured a Mummy that was accidentally awakened during transport to a museum. After running away from it in the museum for most of the show, they eventually discover that it only wants a magical ring one of the characters got from its tomb (which, of course, the bad guy tries to use himself and ends up with a Raiders of the Lost Ark-style Karmic Death). When the mummy puts it on, it comes back to life as a pretty girl.

"The Empress of Mars" gives another sci-fi version of a mummy story: true, the titular Empress and her warriors are cryogenically frozen, but she's encased in gold, lying on a sarcophagus-esque golden plinth, and she's awoken by Victorian soldiers pillaging her 'tomb', so it's hard not to notice the similarities to the original trope. In a refreshing change from the usual mummy's tomb story, the story acknowledges that she's actually justified in being angry with the people showing up to loot her tomb and she gets to survive the episode.

Amazing Stories did an episode called "Mummy Daddy", where an actor in a highly-restricting mummy-suit tries to get to the hospital for the birth of his child, ending up in various slapstick adventures with a bloodthirsty band of southern hicks and a real mummy.

Used by the Leverage team in "The Second David Job". Sophie, pretending to be an Egyptologist, nonchalantly tells a museum curator with a newly acquired mummy that she's glad he doesn't believe all those silly rumors about a curse. He goes online and finds out that all the previous owners have mysteriously died... and, thanks to a little switcheroo with his allergy medication, he's not feeling so well either. The kicker, though, is when he goes to Nate's ex-wife Maggie, who's in on the con:

Curator: Hey, Maggie, you don't believe in curses, do you? You know, mummies, curses, unexplained deaths around sarcophagi... Maggie: Don't be silly. Everyone knows it's a fungus. Curator: ...What? Maggie: Aspergillus flavus. Found on Egyptian artifacts. Gets in the eyes and nose, the infection spreads, and the next thing you know, another death from the curse.

There was an episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys where Herc takes a trip to Egypt and, naturally, has to deal with a mummy. It was tough enough to trade blows with him.

One episode of Tales from the Crypt recounted how the Cryptkeeper's parents — a living male carnival freak and a female mummy — got together. No, she wasn't animate when Crypty's dad got locked in a closet with her overnight.

The Mummy Spray commercial from Gloopy, in the "Haunted Battletram!" episode

Mummy spray in every room"Send those mummies to the tomb"

A Special Unit 2 episode has a mummy being reanimated by lightning. The kicker is, the mummy's a great Japanese samurai with Voluntary Shapeshifting abilities and a plan to conduct a sacrificial ritual to make him even more powerful. They also don't know how to kill it. Bullets just pass through its decomposed corpse, and there's nothing left to burn. Eventually, after getting his ass handed to him by the karate-capable mummy, O'Malley figures out that another lightning strike can kill it. Prior to that, the mummy has kidnapped three women of different ethnicities for the ritual.

Beetleborgs has Mums, who has a close relationship with, yes, his mommy.

Buck Rogers encounters a shambling, mummy-like creature on an alien planet. It turns out that its "wrapping" is natural, and it's actually the larval form of that planet's race of Human Aliens.

The Ghost Busters once had to deal with a very dusty mummy, which served an Expy for Nefertiti. Its dust could block the Dematerializer's beam, but it was terrified of moths.

Herman is mistaken for the mummy of Tuth IV in episode "Mummy Munster" of The Munsters.

An episode of Ultraman featured a strange-looking mummy being studied by Science Patrol that that suddenly came back to life and went on a rampage. However, he wasn't the main threat of the episode — his kaiju guardian was.

Music

Amen◊ of the Finnish metal band Lordi is a mummy. In the moving Dark Floors, he also seems to have the power to create sandstorms out of thin air.

According to his backstory, he was an Egyptian Pharaoh who moonlighted as an assassin, killing his political rivals when they caused trouble, but one of them fought back and gave him a disfiguring scar that drove him to insanity. He had all his palace staff likewise disfigured and ate the hearts of all who resisted. Eventually he was entombed alive, and when he was dug up in the 1920s, he was really hungry.

The video for Howard Jones' "Everlasting Love" has two mummies going about their daily business in the modern-day world in a romantic relationship with each other, emphasizing the theme of everlasting love.

Most, if not all, of the Dungeons & Dragons desktop or computer games will include a mummy, or lots of mummies, as enemies to be killed. If the campaign happens to be set in pseudo-ancient Egypt, the mummy may be the final boss monster.

It's also an exception to the "nearly mindless" rule-a cleric (usually an evil one, but not always) can opt to become a "mummy lord" which, as the name might suggest, combine the powers of normal mummies with all of their living intelligence and Functional Magic.

Like the majority of spooky monsters, mummies got the upgrade-and-customization treatment for the Ravenloft setting. They were described in Van Richten's Guide to the Ancient Dead, in which their name was changed on the grounds that "mummy" automatically calls to mind ancient Egypt, and not every such undead has to be from that style of culture. (Just ask the Dragon Emperor, above.)

Believe it or not, this was actually the theme for an Old World of Darkness RPG, Mummy: The Resurrection. Players were mummies, and didn't seek eternal life except in as much as it assisted them in perfecting their souls/humanity. The corebook had Egyptian-themed mummies as characters, with the player's guide adding South American mummies and Chinese immortals. Considering nearly every supernatural (and there were alotof supernaturals in that world) would just as soon kill humans as look at them, they were as close as the setting got to depicting non-humans as good.

It's also worth noting that oWoD mummies aren't bandage-wrapped zombies. Rather, the embalming process is part of the Spell of Life, which can fully resurrect the recently dead.

Firstly, the Osirans from Promethean: The Created borrow a lot of the elements without all the gauze. Inspired by the myth of Osiris? Check. Ritualistically dismembered before being reconstituted? Check. Of lordly bearing? Check. Able to come back from the dead again and again and again? Check.

Secondly, there are the Purified from the Immortals sourcebook. They're more Chinese than Egyptian (complete with using Chi as a power source), but attain immortality through ritualistic preparation and spend the rest of their lives as a part-spirit entity.

And now there's Mummy: The Curse, which deals with the Arisen, ancient scions of the Nameless Empire who are bound to an endless cycle of sleeping and waking in order to achieve some goal throughout the ages (be it on behalf of their mortal cult or the divine Judge that empowered them).

In Warhammer, the "Tomb Kings of Khemri" are an Egyptian-styled undead army, taking additional inspiration from The Mummy Trilogy, and even a bit of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Most of them are skeletal but the Tomb Kings themselves are mummified. While they will attack people who steal from them, some of them also want to restore their old kingdoms, and several of their necropolises have living populations under the protection of their mummy rulers.

The Slann Mage-Priests of the Lizardmen are mummified frogs or toads, fitting in with the army's Mayincatec theme. Though they might still be alive, or at least in some kind of magical suspended animation.

The mummy template from GURPS: Magic is actually worth negative points because they're easy to kill and incapable of any real thought—Mummies are the same as Zombies and Skeletons, the only difference is the preservation of the corpse. The Whight template is similar and far more intimidating.

Mummies have shown up as far back as the card Vengeful Pharaoh. Though it counts as a regular zombie.

The plane of Amonkhet is home to a thriving mummification industry, much of it performed by other mummies. This is partially because the dead keep rising on Amonkhet, and rising as a docile mummified servant (represented by some of Magic's few mono-White Zombies) is better for everyone concerned than rising as a murderous decaying beast. The mummies (referred to as "the Anointed") perform all manual labor necessary to keep society running, so that the living only need to concern themselves with training for and competing in the often-deadly Trials their society revolves around. The numerous initiates that die during them serve as the chief source of new Anointed.

Munchkin has Mummies as a character class in Munchkin Bites, the set poking fun at Vampire: The Masquerade and other World of Darkness games. The funny bit, because Munchkin always has one, is that they're also mummies as in mothers. They're depicted wearing aprons or vacuuming, and have Clean Your Room as an ability.

Concept art reveals that the haunted house Universal's New House of Horrors from 1996 had one being disturbed by two men in one of the houses. Considering the theme of the house, it was most likely THE Mummy.

The Castlevania series has numerous mummies as enemies, both as normal mooks and as powerful bosses, capable of attacking with flying wrappings or even summoning stones to crush the player with. Sometimes the mummy is given the name of Akmodan. There's no explanation given for what Egyptian style mummies are doing in a Romanian castle, aside from Rule of Cool.

Anakaris of the Darkstalkers series is a slight subversion. While he moves slowly, this is due to his tremendous size, and he is one of the most powerful characters in the series. Which makes sense, as he was practically a god in life...

The video game Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is a Zelda-style adventure game, when you're playing as Sphinx. The Mummy's segments are puzzle-based platformer areas. The solutions to the puzzles almost always involve slapstick humor relating to the fact that the Mummy's already dead, and therefore can be, say, squished flat or lit on fire with no ill effects. There are also a few monsters who were mummified such as the Mummy Worm, Chihuahua, and Bird, among others.

Diablo II features mummies, the lore says unlike zombies with their rotten flesh, mummies conserve their muscles and tissues intact which makes them physically stronger than other types of undead; Mummies can be produced in infinite numbers from sarcophagi and "die" in a burst of poisonous gases (from the chemicals used to preserve their ancient bodies escaping, of course), and greater mummies, the remains of Horadric mages who, to honor them, had animal parts grafted onto their bodies in death. They could raise other kinds of undead (but not each other) and threw black "Unholy Bolts".

Mummies in Boktai cannot see, but have a very good hearing. They throw bombs and bite if they find you. Catch them in a fire hazard or nail one with a Flame shot, however, and they run around like headless chickens - and if they die from the fire, they explode!

Parodied in Kingdom of Loathing. "Ooooh, no! I'll have to walk slightly faster if I want to escape!"

Kingdom of Loathing also has the Small Pyramid at the end of the Holy MacGuffin quest, which is filled with mummies. Among them are mummified bats, Iiti Kitty (the ancient Egyptian ancestor of Hello Kitty), and the quest boss, Ed the Undying, whom you must kill seven times to defeat - "Undying" isn't just a fancy title, kids.

In The King of Dragons, mummies attack the player in Level 10 (and maybe 15). They move slowly, use a grappling attack to sap the players' life and take a fair amount of damage before they die.

Mummy Cats are encountered inside the Pyramid in Secret of Evermore, and attack by hopping around.

MOTHER 3 also has Mummy Cats as a minor enemy, with groovy music. Name? Cleocatra.

Dungeon Crawl has mummies as a player species. Their main gimmick is that they do not need to eat, but they also suffer various offsetting disadvantages, and early game survivability in the hands of a non-expert is low. As for enemies, the game has mummies, guardian mummies, mummy priests and greater mummies, as well as a few derived unique monsters. All of these are notable for having nasty death curses; i.e. they do bad things to you (and your inventory) when you kill them - you can avoid this by having your summons kill them instead. Mummy priests and greater mummies are also quite dangerous spellcasters - their summons can and will kill unwary players.

In Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, mummies are recurring enemies. They are extremely slow, but tend to crop up in confined areas, which can make evading them somewhat difficult, and there is no point in shooting at them, as they are indestructible.....unless you have the grenade launcher or crossbow with explosive arrrows

Amumu, the Sad Mummy, in League of Legends. He differs from the classical mummy in a number of ways. Not physically powerful (partially due to being a child) he relies on magic to hurt people, with his otherwise ineffective headbutt being used to apply his Cursed Touch, which reduces magic resistance. He has no attachment to his tomb, isn't especially slow, and in fact can launch himself at enemies. His main motivation is loneliness.

Black/White version introduces Yamask, a ghost type Pokémon that looks like a shadow-like thing with a golden mask attached to its tail and its evolution, Cofagrigus, a living sarcophagus with an evil face and shadowy hands. Both have the ability Mummy, which means that contact with that Pokémon will cause who ever touches it to gain the Mummy ability as well, leaving the opponent without its original ability and pretty much acting as a contagious "Mummy's Curse".

Magic Sword includes mummies among its variety of mooks, who are quite sturdy for a minor enemy and have a tendency to suddenly fall from the ceiling just above The Brave One/Alan's head.

Valkyrie Profile: These are the standard adversaries in the Tombs of Amenti dungeon.

The Draugr in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim are essentially Nordic mummies, though they aren't covered in bandages. You can even find their embalming equipment lying around as you raid their tombs. They come in both as brainless monster and powerful lich-like varieties.

The Secret World features quite a few of these as traditional mindless enemies in the Egypt missions, twisted versions of traditional mummies that serve as mooks for the Cult of Aten. However, the game also reveals that there's a whole society of intelligent mummies in control of Egypt's criminal underworld. Known as the Kingdom, they're corrupt and greedy, but thankfully remain neutral in the conflict. One of them, Säid, acts as a quest-giver.

Incan-style mummies are an integral part of the Dominions MA nation of Nazca as due to their reverence for the wisdom of the elders they took to mummifying their priests and kings so they can continue giving their advice. The result is they they are now the true rulers of Nazca society and in-game their commanders are mummified on death and serve as undead. It is also possible for death Mages of all nations to ressurrect their nation's heroes, who come back as mummies.

Paper Mario has Pokey Mummies, a variation of the Super Mario Series' standard cactus enemy. They don't wear bandages, but are found in coffins inside the Dry Dry Ruins and are able to poison their enemies.

In Animal Crossing, one of the potential villagers that players can have in their town is dog who is wrapped head-to-toe in bandages named Lucky. However, the inside of his house is decorated to resemble an ancient Egyptian tomb, implying that he's actually dressed as a mummy.

Your Sims can encounter mummies in the World Adventures pack for The Sims 3. These powerful and hostile creatures hide in sarcophagi, waiting for explorers to open them. The Sims better have a high martial art skills to defeat them, else might get cursed and die in a week. A player controlled Sim may also sleep in a cursed sarcophagus and become a mummy themself. Playable mummies are slow, sterile, and can be killed instantly by fire, but in exchange for that, have increased physical strength, immunity to electricity, and their lifepan is five times longer than a regular Sim.

Killer Instinct has Kan-Ra, who while Babylonian, can fit the description. He is cursed to rot alive indefinitely, and while his default costume has minimal wrappings, his alternate costume decks him out in a full mummy costume.

The Haunted Ruins: The Mummer enemies in the fourth section of the dungeon may be mummies, as the rest of the section has undead enemies, like Skeletons and what is presumably decapitated zombies, called Decapito.

Mummies in Miitopia are wacky-looking creatures with the annoying habit of swallowing the Mii's weapons.

The Mumbies are recurring enemies in the Kirby series which look like round things wrapped in Mummy bandages, which only let a single red eye peek from the bandages. They only move when Kirby is looking away from them.

Mummies appear in the ruins section of the Old Clockworks in Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon. But unwrap them and it will reveal that the mummy was in fact a Greenie ghost impersonating one.

Mummies are a playable race in Soulcalibur VI's Libra of Soul mode. They are mummified corpses that were reanimated by astral fissure energies.

Webcomics

In the webcomic Muertitos, mummies are the ruling class of the undead world. They mostly act like yuppies (although we rarely see any others except Ankhmutes and her mother, so who knows). Also, only mummies are allowed to vote.

Her sister, Nefera, is even more attractive, but also is more of an Alpha Bitch.

The Gentleman Mummy occasionally shows his face on his blog from time to time.

The tagline on College Humor's sketch, "The Six Monsters You'll Have for Roommates" is "The mummy has his own place off-campus." Presumably, he's like thezombie, only living in an apartment instead of a dorm.

In the episode "Escape to the House of Mummies, Part II", is partially a send-up of this trope; in it, the family meets a 'good mummy,' but pretty much all of the shambling corpses, and the 'Cult of Osiris' that resurrected them, are profoundly ineffective.

In the pilot, a mummy falls out of their jet. Brock kicks its ass, kills it, and the urinates on it for good measure (you have to defile a mummy completely, or else it'll just get back up). Upon closer inspection, Rusty finds the mummy to be a fake. It's unknown who that guy really was, or why he dressed up as a mummy and climbed into the Venture jet.

The mummy in the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "Throw Mummy From The Train" is actually portrayed as a good character, guarding a ring that, when plugged into the Sphinx, summons a demon into it, not diamonds as the legitimate archaeologist mistranslated it, so he and the titular Rescue Rangers try to stop the other archaeologist, who's only in it for the loot and hates the responsible bits like cataloging the treasures, from doing that with the ring.

Courage the Cowardly Dog features the Mummy of King Ramses, who seems to be based on a cross between Tutankhamen and Moses - he looks like a greenish vampire and instead of acting like a zombie, he chooses to stand from afar and curse the house with floods, locusts and terrible music ("the man in gauze, the man in gauze. KING RAAAAMSES!"). He also has the power of possession.

There was another episode with a more traditional mummy, this one being a unfairly punished baker. This mummy's background is more Mayincatec but is still an Egyptian-style linen-wrapped mummy.

In one episode of Road Rovers ("Dawn of the Groomer") a villainess tries to resurrect three anthropomorphic dog mummies.

The animated series Mummies Alive! may be the only group of superheroic mummies on record.

Tutenstein features the undead child-pharaoh Tutankhensetamun awoken in the modern day.

The classic Big Bad of Thunder Cats and ThunderCats (2011). "Ancient spirits of evil, transform this decayed form to Mumm-Ra, the Ever-Living!" Ironically, in all but aesthetics, Mumm-Ra is more of a Lich.

Mummies were among Scooby-Doo's most common adversaries, perhaps because it's such an easy Monster Suit of the Week to whip up in a pinch.

One of the Scooby-Doo movies is called Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?, and features Velma herself as the mind behind the "Scooby-Doo" Hoax. The only reason she didn't tell the rest of the gang was because she was afraid they'd get mixed up in the plan.

Naturally, one of these shows up in Monster Force. This version of the mummy, while appearing like a more human version of the typical bandage-wrapped shambler (separate fingers, visible facial fingers), is almost identical to the first movie version, being intelligent and a powerful sorcerer.

In an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a mummy is discovered to be living in the team's basement. This is why, as Carl explains, their rent was so cheap. The mummy continuously bullies Frylock into buying him expensive gifts and meals, threatening him with "CURSE!" if he refuses. After a visit to the local library, Frylock learns that plagues are just an "Old Wives' Tale," and that a mummy's true curse is that it is a selfish, spoiled brat devoid of any social skills. With no prospect of magical retribution, they toss him to the curb for the trash pick-up.

In the TaleSpin episode "In Search of Ancient Blunders", Baloo, Wildcat, and Adventurer Archaeologist Myra encounter a mummy who guards the upside-down pyramid of King Utmost. The mummy is revealed to be the foreman who was responsible for the pyramid being built upside down; King Utmost cursed him in retaliation. However, the mummy undoes the curse by preventing Don Karnage's Air Pirates from stealing the pyramid, which indirectly results in its being reinstalled on the original site rightside up.

In the SWAT Kats episode "The Deadly Pyramid", the Pastmaster takes control of an army of monster mummies (each is the size of a small building!) and goes on a rampage.

The Centurions fight an army of the creatures in "The Mummy's Curse"—until their pharaoh revives and tells them to go back to sleep (in perfect, unaccented English).

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "Mind Your Mummy Mommy, Mario" had Bowser sending his twin Koopalings to kidnap the mummified Prince Mushroomkhamen for a reason that is never given. In the process, they end up waking up his mother, who mistakes Mario for her son (and later Luigi for her husband) because they look exactly alike.

During the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog four-parter about the Chaos Emeralds, Robotnik visited a pyramid in which he encountered mummified ancestors of both himself and Sonic.

In the short-lived Hanna-Barbera series Drak Pack, The Brute of the bad guys was the mumblingMummy-Man who besides being strong and tough also could shoot away his bandages (but not losing any of them - he seemed to have an inexhaustible supply of them) to bind his opponent, create grapple lines or tie things together, as a very weird variant of Spiderman's webshooters.

Kent Brockman: Another local peasant has been found dead — drained of his blood with two teeth marks on his throat. This black cape was found on the scene. [Cape has "DRACULA" written on it] Police are baffled.

Chief Wiggum: We think we're dealing with a supernatural being, most likely a mummy. As a precaution, I've ordered the Egyptian wing of the Springfield museum destroyed.

"Go, soccer mummy! You taught me to believe in myself!"

In the opening for "Treehouse of Horror XX", a mummy dresses up as Captain Jack Sparrow to attend the costume party but is attacked by his wife when she finds he was cheating on her.

Dick: Yes, Irwin's mom is actually a mummy. Nobody can tell you who to fall in love with, but we've managed to make it work all these years. Leaving a whole lot of questions that don't need to be answered.

Mandy: Eh, works for me.

Grim: Me too.

Billy: ...Yeeeeeaaah, but how did you and Irwin's mom...

Dick:(in the exact same tone of voice) Leaving a whole lot of questions that don't need to be answered.

A later episode kinda answers this by revealing that Irwin's dad is actually a Half Vampire.

Dark Bunny and the Curse of the Moomies (giant cow mummies with Eye Beams) from Arthur.

Cleofatra in Gravedale High is the class token nerdy fat girl. One of the teachers is also a mummy with very bad breath named Mr. Tutner.

The Men in Black: The Series episode "The I Want My Mummy Syndrome" had this mixed with Ancient Astronauts ideas. The episode featured a very aggressive specie of aliens from an Egypt-like planet named Hyperia. One of this aliens awakes from hibernation in modern times wrecking havoc, as it is blue-skinned and cover with wraps most people think it is a mummy.

Super Friends face aztec mummies in one episode with El Dorado as protagonist.

A mummy appears in two different and unrelated episodes of DuckTales (1987). Curiously, though, it seem to be the exact same mummy (a dogface Goofy-like version). The first episode "Sphinx for the Memories" is the classic Ancient Egypt adventure and the mummy at the end is released from the curse and travels to the afterlife in the form of a Fog Feet ghost. The episode "Ducky Horror Picture Show" had the mummy appear with other monsters in a Monster Mash setting, but Scrooge and his nephews do not seem to recognize him, nor does the mummy recognize Scrooge and his nephews.

Another Monster Mash episode; "Deadcon 1" of The Real Ghostbusters has a monster convention in New York, so the Ghostbusters must act as hotel personnel to keep things under control. A mummy checks in the hotel signing with hieroglyphics and it is up to bellhop Egon to carry his sarcophagus.

Mummo, the resident mummy in Camp Mini-Mon of The Mini-Monsters for monster children.

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